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The upper Decepticon ranks might tolerate brawling and fighting, but if it escalates into an open shooting match between the Seekers and Sweeps, they will put a swift stop to it. Assassinating and declaring war inside the faction will not be tolerated.
JaAm wrote:So who plays Aftershock and Rancid? Maybe I'll talk to them.
Devastron wrote:To me, it seems, the Sweeps are rapidly becoming one note characters, obsessed with avenging anything that could possibly considered a slight against them. I've seen them swear a vendetta against nearly every character they've met so far. I'd like to see them do something else. Perhaps they need to be split up a bit more than they currently are so they can mingle with other non-sweeps. I'll have to consider that.
Rebel Raven wrote:Sunstreaker was responsible for damaging Discord and Torment fairly well, and blasted Scourge pretty hard on top of that. When one Autobot does that much damage to 3 high tech Decepticons it's a bit of a slap in the face as far as Discord goes.
As towards the plans in general, I'm just tossing them out. I have no intent on having Discord act on them unless it gets positive reviews in this thread. Discord is extremely loyal to the Sweeps and the empire, and she would never go renegade.
And do you really mean to say that if the situation were reversed in the ambush and the Sweeps assaulted the Insecticons in the same manner with weapons blasting, that the Insecticons wouldn't be angry at the Sweeps, and looking to get their revenge for attacking them when they were completely unprepared?
That no Insecticon would swear revenge on a Sweep for kicking them while they were down?
That if the Sweeps actually won that the Insecticons wouldn't be burning up in anger?
I find it hard to believe considering their motive for the ambush was a matter of ego and pride, and seeing the Sweeps as replacements. That the Insecticons attacked simply to show that they are better than the Sweeps.
That if the roles were reversed that the Insecticons wouldn't be planning revenge.
And I'd hardly call an assault with weapons fire, blasting apart people, and seeking to turn someone into scrap "Brawling." In fact you posted something similar.The upper Decepticon ranks might tolerate brawling and fighting, but if it escalates into an open shooting match between the Seekers and Sweeps, they will put a swift stop to it. Assassinating and declaring war inside the faction will not be tolerated.
Granted you were speaking of the Seekers and Sweeps, not the Insecticons and the Sweeps, but I think the 2 situations are similar enough for that post to be relevant. I doubt the Insecticons even on their best day could take down 3 Sweeps in a full assault before the Sweeps could return fire thus making it a shooting match.
I suppose none of the Sweeps short of Scourge are important enough to count as an assassination attempt as opposed to attempted murder, no matter what their egos might have to say about it.
I do recognize the Insecticons are in trouble, too, though they have escaped punishment so far.
Brawling to me is throwing a punch after heated words, or after getting drunk, and looking to just beat a person up in general but not with any intentional deadly force, maybe a blunt weapon at worst, and actually slugging it out rather than pulling a gun and shooting which was the first action the Insecticons took.
Then again this is a world where limbs can be replaced perfectly, and taking wounds that no human could possibly live through is possible.
I recognize the intent of the assault was to start something between the Sweeps and Insecticons, but I think the Insecticons flying down and taunting the Sweeps about the fact that the exercise lasted as long as it had, or that they, especially Discord, had been beaten up as bad as they were by grunts might have done the trick. Punches would probably fly, and a brawl would ensue until someone decided to pull a weapon. Even Rage might have kept her head and not activated her claws seeing it as a less than lethal attempt, rather an attempt to leave the Sweeps damaged and crawling back home.
Naturally, Discord is concerned with the safety and general well being of the Sweeps which includes morale. It's first and foremost. Having read and comprehended Sun Tsu's The Art of War, I plan to apply some of that knowledge to her leadership abilities and hopefully cultivate her into a leader among leaders. And no she'll not be spouting freeform poetry from The Art of War.
With that in mind, she has no intent of making the Sweeps do something that would get them in trouble with the rest of the Empire. Her loyalty is beyond question, which is why she really hates infighting.
That doesn't mean she can't be angry with anyone, or hold grudges, right?
I thought that sort of thing was the Decepticon way? At least as long as it doesn't interfere with business, anyhow.
Besides, her mentality is only human. She isn't perfect.
I admit Discord's thoughts are consumed with hatred, anger, and burning revenge but it's not all she is about. She is vain, somewhat egotistical, loyal to a fault, mildly ambitious, intelligent, silver tongued, dare I say somewhat noble, and charismatic among other things.
Maybe a bit snobbish, and elitist.
Right now, she's angry because she's supposed to be a tough warrior with cutting edge technology yet Sunstreaker beat up two of them not more than a dozen cycles ago or so, and blasted Scourge with a missile on top of that, and that the Insecticons went and kicked her and her siblings while they were down not to mention opened fire on them with unrestrained blasting, and she were sent limping away from battle in both instances on top of that. Sure she survived, and did plenty of damage, but her pride took a few hits in that she were barely able to leave under her own power, if at all able to leave under her own power.
She's also kinda new to the world and in time she'll recognize she can't go swearing revenge on every last Autobot that defeats more than one named Sweep with a personal vendetta, that battles can be won or lost, that she isn't the super warrior that'll come out with nary a blemish to her paint job after even the most intense fights, and mellow out with character growth.
JaAm wrote:As for Venom, Anybody who's character has abone to pick with the Insecticons, drop me a PM and we can work something out.
JaAm wrote: Just out of curiosity, Who's on the Ark-15, and what are their positions?
JaAm wrote:Ok, and do they know about the Thanatos?
Luciferus wrote:I think we should have some team-up action between the bots and the cons, where they are reluctantly forced to join up to defeat a common threat.
Fx. try imagine the Corrupticons teaming up with the Protectobots, that would certainly be interesting
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